Several years went by.
CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY
数年
several years
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DEFINITIONS & USAGE
Meaning and common use
01
several years
02
many years
REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES
How 数年 actually appears in real sentences.
These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 数年 appears in 5 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.
He died some years since.
I've dealt with this store for years.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS
Words that keep company with 数年.
Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 数年.
Directly before
- 我数年2
- 在数年1
Directly after
- 数年对1
- 数年过去1
- 数年前1
- 数年来1
- 数年的1
ABOUT THIS ENTRY
Where this entry comes from
The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.
Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
COMMON QUESTIONS
About 数年
What does 数年 mean in Chinese?
数年 (shùnián) means several years.
How do you pronounce 数年?
数年 is pronounced shùnián.
Is 数年 an HSK word?
数年 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.
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